Senior AI Developer

About the role

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is seeking a Senior AI Developer to join our AI Innovation team. This is a fully remote position with significant technical ownership and immediate contribution potential.

Responsibilities

• Help define the technical roadmap for AI adoption, contributing to build-vs-buy decisions, vendor evaluations, and architectural direction.
• Architect multi-agent systems and agentic workflows using tool use, function calling, planner-executor pipelines, agent swarms, and autonomous task decomposition.
• Build and maintain AI skills: self-contained automation workflows that run in their own execution context with quality assurance verification.
• Extend our MCP server network with new tool integrations, dynamic server discovery, gateway architectures, OAuth 2.1 auth flows, audit logging, and sandboxed execution.
• Engineer solutions for large-scale data challenges across millions of documents, patent databases, and enterprise systems.
• Implement guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and data governance standards appropriate for a regulated legal environment.
• Evaluate and integrate new models, APIs, and capabilities as they ship from Anthropic, Microsoft, and other providers.
• Act as an internal AI consultant: gather requirements from attorneys and legal staff, translate business needs into technical solutions, and deliver AI-powered workflow systems that streamline legal and operational processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field preferred.
• Proven experience in AI architecture, agent-based systems, or intelligent automation, with a minimum of 5 years in a similar role.
• Strong working knowledge of the Anthropic platform (Claude models, Messages API, streaming, extended thinking, Claude Agent SDK).
• Experience with Microsoft AI services (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, or related offerings).
• Experience with MCP or similar AI-to-tool integration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, custom pipelines, or equivalent).
• Experience building RAG pipelines, semantic search, and document intelligence workflows at scale.
• Proficiency with real-time streaming architectures (SSE, WebSockets, Streamable HTTP) and enterprise auth (OAuth 2.0/2.1, Azure AD/Entra ID).
• Ability to work across the stack: backend APIs, streaming infrastructure, frontend interfaces.
• Proficiency with AI-native development platforms (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) over expertise in any single language.
• Track record of independently solving complex, ambiguous problems and shipping working solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of ML fundamentals: fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT), evaluation metrics, NLP tasks, and MLOps/LLMOps practices.
• Familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, scikit-learn).
• Experience with large-scale data processing: millions of documents, vector embedding pipelines, enterprise databases.
• Knowledge of large law firm operations, IP workflows, or enterprise document management systems (iManage, NetDocuments).

Benefits

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits commensurate with the market for senior AI talent. This is a full-time, regular position with a multi-faceted health benefit package including medical, dental, and vision. The firm also offers life insurance, short term disability plans and retirement plans in addition to holidays and paid time off. The firm offers hybrid work schedules combining in office work days as well as remote work days. The pay range for this position in California only is $180,000 to $250,000 annually.